ACCESS TO INFORMATION DOCUMENTS FOR ATLAS AIR CHARTER OF LIVE HORSES FROM THE CALGARY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TO KAGOSHIMA, JAPAN On September 12, 2017 an Atlas Air charter flight left the Calgary International Airport carrying 106 horses destined for slaughter to Kagoshima, Japan. Because there was a significant flight delay, an Access to Information request was […]

In order to publicize the issue of live draft horse shipments from Canada to Japan, CHDC has worked together with the Animal Rights Center, ARCJ.ORG, based in Tokyo, Japan. ARCJ has very generously provided footage of conditions in Japanese feedlots, where both Canadian and American draft horses are routinely transported.

The Canadian Horse Defence Coalition sent two directors to the Animal Rights Conference in Alexandria VA in August. This event is geared to the vegan community as well as animal welfare and rights. We wanted to see how equine slaughter would fit into this advocacy. Horses were not represented at all with one exception. That […]

This clip from a video on YouTube shows a hard landing of an Atlas Air Cargo 747. This aircraft did not have horses on it but how would the horses in the crates react to this landing? How would this impact horses who are already overweight, having their weight slammed down onto their legs? If […]

Dr. Maureen Harper is a veterinarian who worked for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) for 30 years. Prior to retirement in 2011, Dr. Harper was acting program officer responsible for the delivery of the animal transport program in Ontario. The following article, Legalized cruelty: the gaps in Canada’s animal transport laws, was written by […]

MP Murray Rankin (NDP – Victoria) has, with the assistance of Michael Bernard of HSI and the CHDC, submitted questions to the government via Order Paper on March 6, 2017. We have attached the questions below; you can read the original Q-909 here at the bottom of the page. Responses to Order Papers are normally […]

Eurogroup for Animals, a Belgian group that seeks to improve the treatment of animals in the EU, has reported that the CETA trade agreement was approved by the EU parliament (408 votes in favour, 254 against, 33 abstentions). CETA (the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) is a deal negotiated between the EU and Canada which […]

The Clock is Ticking! The Horses Need You! December 21, 2016 is the deadline for signing E-petition 116. This is your opportunity, as a Canadian and a horse defender, to speak out against horse slaughter! An official government petition, E-116 has been sponsored by Member of Parliament Mark Holland. It calls upon the House of […]

This is a slightly older study but very relevant to the issue of live horses shipped from Canada to Japan for meat. This Japanese study (scroll halfway down the PDF document to read) follows the illness of 11 people who consumed horsemeat obtained from a market in Japan, with one incident directly traced to Canada. […]

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